Well, night number 1 is in the books, and it wasn’t really a night, it was more of a full day.
I was up early today, and on the road at 8am.I picked up my copilot, Patrick, and we were on our way toBaltimore.It was bitter sweet, it was the first time I traveled without a certain special someone, but she’s moved on from my life, and I’m doing the same.
Five and a half hours later, we were in Baltimoreand checked into the Days Inn down at the InnerHarbor.We met up with a few Twitter friends for a late lunch, and then it was back to the Hotel to get dressed and ready for the EMS 10 Awards dinner at the M & T Bank Stadium.
The EMS 10 Awards was created to recognize ten innovative EMS professionals whose “efforts are an inspiration and a challenge to the rest of theEMScommunity.”I was invited to the dinner as a representative of the Blogging and Social Media community.The more I thought about this, the more I was humbled that I was thought of as someone who was influential enough to be a guest at such an event.I haven’t been at this blogging thing very long, and it makes me happy to know that people are taking notice and enjoying what they read.
This was an excellent way to start off the night.Physio Control put on a great event.The accomplishments of those selected for the awards were inspiring, and as RJ Stine commented, “who knows?Any one of us could be up there in the coming years.”A special congratulation goes out to two members of our Social Media community: Greg Friese and Chris Montera who were award recipients this year.We are making waves, and people starting to sit up and listen!
From there, we headed over to the Pratt St Ale House for the Zoll sponsored Meetup to kickoff EMS Today. If you’ve been watching the Twitter Feed at all over the last week or so, chances are you saw the #PrattStTweetup hashtag scroll by. The turn out was great.It was tough to get a true head count, but we took over the entire second floor of the Pratt St Ale House, and I would say that there was easily 40-50 people spread out throughout the place.It was great to see a lot of new and old faces, and just spend some time catching up.
A big “thank you” goes out to Charlotte and the team from Zoll. Without them, tonight would not have been possible.
It was great to have a chance to reconnect and catch up with a lot of people that I haven’t seen in months.I’ve been looking forward to this since I stepped on a plane and left Dallas.We all said we’d see each other inBaltimore, and that day, things seemed to be so far away.Now, here we are, back together again, like one big family.
This is going to be one heck of a week!